SharePoint 2010: Approve/Reject dialog customization, show changed values
SharePoint provide rich support for approval process. You can maintain version of changes, you can use built-in workflows or develop your own for approval process. You can even create custom workflow activities and use it in SharePoint Designer to create your own approval workflow. Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn’t provide a nice UI where approver can get a snapshot of what’s changes he’s going to approve/reject. What we are familiar with the following UI: Figure 1: Very generic UI to approve/reject What if we could have a dialog as shown below: Figure 2: Custom Approve/Reject dialog with modification highlighted As shown in figure 2, the approver will have the better look of what’s the changes he’ll approve/reject. As shown in figure 2, the person who will approve/reject, can get a snapshot of what changes are waiting for his/her approval. What’s the cost of custom approve/reject dialog? Now the question comes what’s the development cost of such a custom approve/rej...